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title: Mrs. Darling came to the window, for at present she was keeping a sh… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Mrs. Darling came to the window, for at present she was keeping a sharp eye on Wendy. Who acts: Mrs.. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP, sentence 42

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Mrs. Darling came to the window, for at present she was keeping a sharp eye on Wendy.

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**Who acts:** Mrs. · **What happens:** come, keep · **To what, where:** window, sharp eye, Wendy

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs.), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg16:18:42
# text = Mrs. Darling came to the window, for at present she was keeping a sharp eye on Wendy.
1	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Mrs. |  |  | the window |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **keep** | past · progressive | Mrs. | a sharp eye |  | Wendy |  | for present | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on wendy=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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